The inferential basis of species hypotheses: The solution to defining the term 'species'

Marine Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 155-165

  Fitzhugh, Kirk ^a  

^a NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abduction; Inference; Ontogeny; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Species; Species concepts; Taxa; Tokogeny

Indexed keywords

ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

EID: 33744807284     PISSN: 01739565     EISSN: 14390485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2005.00058.x     Document Type: Article

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